Hugh was appointed to the Barloworld board on 1 February 2019. Hugh began his early career at Hewlett Packard in the U.S, as a software engineer and then moved on to spend 22 years at Intuit, a financial software and services firm based in the U.S where he remained until 2015. During his tenure at Intuit, he became an engineering fellow and vice president leading the Intuit Labs Incubator. Hugh is the CEO and founder of Ujama, a community messaging platform. He also serves on the boards of Mozilla Corporation and Echoing Green.